Re: [patch] Re: [2.1.117] GPF in APM while using WINE

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:53:28 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Petko Manolov wrote:
>
> It looks to me like loadsegment() does the thing.
> But what about disabling IRQs at all during task switch, just in case?
> This could prevent from such surprices in the future.

I'd actually prefer to get the surprises, because this one definitely
pointed to a real problem where somebody could have triggered the very
same oops by just making sure the segments were invalid at the time of a
APM event..

(And we definitely do want to do "lazy" cleanup of segments - it's just
too painful to try to do it exactly).

Linus

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